CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 469 km round trip from Petrila - roughly 8 h 56 in the saddle. On the way it passes Village of Câlnic, Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic and back through Village of Câlnic. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,450 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Petroșani is the capital of the Jiu valley, a long trench between the Retezat, Vâlcan, Parâng and Șureanu mountains in south-western Romania, and for most of the twentieth century it was the heart of the country's hard-coal industry. The hills around the town, including Dealul Botanilor, look down on a landscape of mining towns, pit heads and miners' housing, with the high mountains rising all around.
Read the complete Petroșani - Dealul Botanilor write-up.
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Petroșani - Dealul Botanilor is where the day begins. Next is Village of Câlnic.
Câlnic, a small village south of Sebeș in Alba county, is home to one of the strangest fortresses among the Saxon sites of Transylvania. Unlike most of its neighbours, it began not as a fortified church but as a noble residence. In the thirteenth century a local count built a stone keep here, surrounded by walls and a moat. Later the villagers bought it, added a chapel and storerooms, and turned it into a peasant refuge, where families could shelter from raids behind the walls. The result, still ringed by water on parts of its perimeter, is part of the Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania World Heritage site.
Read the complete Village of Câlnic write-up.
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Village of Câlnic comes up 65 km in. Next is Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic.
In the Apuseni mountains of western Romania, gold has shaped the land and its people for two thousand years. The Romans came for it after conquering Dacia, organising the mining from a centre at Ampelum, today the town of Zlatna, whose name comes from the Slavic word for gold. Trâmpoiele, on the high ground near Almașu Mare, is one of the many small sites connected to that Roman presence, where mining, settlement and watch posts dotted the hills. A little further north, the mining landscape of Roșia Montană, with its Roman galleries cut deep into the rock, was listed by UNESCO in 2021 and gives the clearest idea of how the ancient gold was won.
Read the complete Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic write-up.
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130 km in you reach Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic. Next is back through Village of Câlnic.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Village of Câlnic write-up.
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back through Village of Câlnic, late in the day. Next is Petroșani - Dealul Botanilor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Petroșani - Dealul Botanilor write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Petroșani - Dealul Botanilor. That is the ride.
Petroșani - Dealul Botanilor → Village of Câlnic is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Village of Câlnic → Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Trâmpoiele - Grohașu Mic → back through Village of Câlnic is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Village of Câlnic → Petroșani - Dealul Botanilor is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.